I would like to log the fact that before the latest moaning about Jack Whitehall's humour, I had declared him unfunny, and certainly not worthy of winning awards for comedy. I also included him when compiling my 123 things we could have done without in 2012. However, that said, there's not much that's right about the current witch-hunt that's in progress, after his display on the Big Fat Quiz of the Year.
Sorry, but many Channel 4 programmes (and Channel 5 programmes) are created by people behind the scenes whose level of creativity is not amongst the highest in the business. In fact, their skill sets include little in that department, so we are served many programmes that feature the same faces, or the same types of 'entertainment'. Further, there is an accepted 'base' level that's on display a lot of the time. BBC2 is not averse to dumbing down - something that any viewer of Never Mind the Buzzcocks will have noticed a while ago. [What the fucking fuck was Bob Mortimer doing hosting the Christmas Special? So completely UNFUNNY that I was almost forced to review my opinion of Jack Whitehall.] Back to Channel 4, and if it isn't Jimmy Carr, Gok Wan, Alan Carr or the people from 8/10 Cats, then it's a fallback programme on some sort of weird human disfigurement (this is the point where Jack would perhaps mention Susan Boyle again) along the lines of "The Woman Who Ate Her Left Tit" or "The Guy with Seven Fingers and a Spare Dick".
The Big Fat Quiz of the Year is the usual chance for the same suspects to deliver some mildly amusing stuff on the cheap for Channel 4. It was lame, funny here and there, and hardly a great advert for TV. However, it was most certainly not offensive at the levels being discussed in the media now. So one hundred and sixty people complained - oh fucking dear, how cunting terrible for them that they could not switch over and had to endure puerile humour mixed in with some funny stuff. I refuse to count complaints from people who complained after having been roused and prodded by the media to do so. Anyone stirring from a hangover to catch up on events and complain because they later on decided to assess what was causing a fuss are people who hardly merit attention. I believe millions of people watch TV, so 160 can fuck off. As for puerile humour, that's typically the stuff loved by Jonathan Ross, who mixes it with talking about himself, and sexual innuendo.
Frankie Boyle must surely be rather more offensive to people than Jack Whitehall? He is very difficult to take unless in small doses, mixed with input from others. That's why on Mock The Week we managed to think him funny and he could usually get away with things. A whole show from him, or a whole newspaper column, well, that's just too much. Jack is not my cup of tea. That's because he's hardly the funniest person around, and his material is often weak before he even starts. However, it's hardly fair that because he's from a well-to-do family and rather well off, he's somehow a target. Working class comedians tend to be let off more; they do not own the rights to comedy. Anyone can be a comedian as far as I'm concerned [except of course Bruce Forsythe, who thinks he is funny and is blatantly insane] if he or she is funny. Also, the queen is not off limits. The golden rule for performers in general is surely that they should live or die by their success, whether on stage, or in sales of DVDs and CDs. So, a shit singer will not sell much music (Rihanna excluded) and an unfunny comedian will see audiences diminish, and empty seats in auditoria (that's auditoriums to any thick cunts reading this and scratching their heads).
Whatever the merits of Jack Whitehall's comedy, or of Channel 4's commissioning editors, the real tragedy here is that once again, a few cunts have complained about nothing to OffCunt or whatever the body is that writes shit down on a clipboard, because they have suposedly been offended, and these arseholes have been given undeserved attention and recognition. This is pathetic and confirms for the 187th time in the last 12 months that the UK is certainly not a country that endorses freedom of speech, is not a country that is democratic, and is not a country that has any future. Within a few weeks there'll be yet another "scandal" where a handful of cunts are offended about something, and we'll all have to be told how awful someone or something is by meddlers in the media. Aside from newcomers to the 'Register of Offenders', there will no doubt be some further offence from stalwarts. My money is on another Clarkson outburst. He's one of the few people who says what he likes, and more often says what so needs to be said.
This country is indeed fucked - left, right and centre. I mean in all ways, rather than in reference to political stances, what with left, right and centre all being much the same these days. Yes, the UK is screwed completely, but it is not Jack Whitehall doing the screwing.
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